On What If People Find Out?, comedian James Barr and music executive-turned-therapist Kalvin Ryder are joined by guests from across arts and culture, to share the part of themselves that they have kept hidden... until now. Each conversation, filled with laughter and reflection, teaches us a bit about ourselves too. This is a podcast about occupying your space with zero shame and where being unapologetically you is celebrated. New episodes every Monday.

She's a therapist, educator and guardian of one of the most visionary legacies in the history of psychology. This week on What If People Find Out, James Barr and Kalvin Ryder are joined by Lady Diana Whitmore.

As the final student of Roberto Assagioli — the Italian psychiatrist who stood shoulder to shoulder with Freud and Jung and founded the transformative discipline of psychosynthesis — Lady Diana inherited not just a body of work, but a mission. When Assagioli died, he left 26-year-old Diana to carry that flame, something she has never let go.

Diana is the founder and a current trustee of the Psychosynthesis Trust. She is also the founder and co-CEO of Growing2gether, a Charity which works with young people and is a resilience- based youth mentoring programme.

In this expansive and deeply moving conversation, Lady Diana shares her story - from running away to California in the 1960s and finding herself at the legendary Esalen Institute, to witnessing Assagioli's teachings spiral into cult-like control in the US, to rebuilding the work from the ground up in the UK and founding the Psychosynthesis Trust.

James, Kalvin and Lady Diana explore what it means to carry a legacy you didn't ask for, the danger of power without ethics, and why our struggles are never just problems — they are invitations.

It's warm, wise and genuinely life-expanding — a conversation about what happens when you stop hiding from your own greatness.

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